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Friday, 5 September 2014

Floral Friday | A Flower Quote

These little orange delights only bloom once a year, for 2 weeks. The last week of August and the first week of September. They tell me when Spring is near.

For Floral Friday this month we were to find a quote about flowers. The poem below is neither a quote nor is it about flowers, but it resonated with me this week and I very much wanted to share it with you. I hope it sits with you like it did with me.

Happy weekend to you all x

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Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

--Mary Oliver

***Floral Fridays is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along, please email Trishie (trishie@underlockandkeyblog.com) for next month's theme or visit her here

Click on the pictures below to check out some other Floral Friday posts for this month!